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Testing ESL Pragmatics
Development and Validation of a Web-Based Assessment Battery
Av Carsten Röver, Rudiger Grotjahn m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
707 kr
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Although second language learners’ pragmatic competence (their ability to use language in context) is an essential part of their general communicative competence, it has not been a part of second language tests. This book helps fill this gap by describing the development and validation of a …
Interviewer Variability in Oral Proficiency Interviews
Av Annie Brown, Günther Sigott
Häftad, 2005
799 kr
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This book was the winner of the 2005 Jacqueline A. Ross Dissertation Award for second or foreign language testing.The assessment of speaking skills is an important part of the language learning process, whether carried out by teachers in the classroom or through proficiency tests administered by …
Measuring Interlanguage Pragmatic Knowledge of EFL Learners
Av Jianda Liu
Häftad, 2005
1023 kr
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Pragmatic competence is an integral and indispensable component of overall language competence. Omitting the pragmatic dimension from language assessment is, therefore, quite unfortunate. This book describes the development and validation of three test methods designed to test the interlanguage …
Validity Evaluation in Language Assessment
Häftad, 2008
980 kr
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This book explores the notion of «validity evaluation» as a means for helping educators to ensure the utility and worth of their assessment practices. With a particular focus on foreign language testing, the author challenges assessment traditions and argues for a fundamental reconceptualization of …
Der C-Test
Theorie, Empirie, Anwendungen / The C-Test: Theory, Empirical Research, Applications
Häftad, 2006
980 kr
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C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen die zweite Hälfte jedes zweiten Wortes fehlt. Sie gelten in der Regel als objektives, reliables, valides und ökonomisches Instrument zur Messung allgemeiner Sprachkompetenz und werden mittlerweile in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten eingesetzt. Der …
Strategic Competence and EFL Reading Test Performance
A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Av Aek Phakiti
Häftad, 2007
921 kr
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Strategic competence (a higher-order executive ability that executes strategies for language use) has long been theorized as a significant non-linguistic factor affecting second language (L2) communicative ability. Despite its recognition, the parameters of strategic competence have been poorly …
Modelling Performance in Tests of Spoken Language
Häftad, 2007
1020 kr
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When we use a language we are always aware of our audience. This awareness is reflected, for example, in changes to the way we speak to the same person in different contexts or to different people in the same context. This book explores the way in which test takers’ language can change in test …
Personality Differences and Oral Test Performance
Av Vivien Berry, Günther Sigott
Häftad, 2007
666 kr
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The book examines how individual differences in candidates’ levels of extraversion interact with facets which have been shown to affect scores obtained on oral performance tests. Three major studies are presented: the first is concerned with the individual candidate in the model; the second study …
Applying Item Response Theory in Language Test Item Bank Building
Av Gábor Szabó
Häftad, 2007
826 kr
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Item Response Theory, though it has become a widely recognized tool in language testing research, is still not used frequently in practical language assessment projects. This book intends to provide a theoretical overview as well as to give practical guidance concerning the application of IRT in …
Tasks and Criteria in Performance Assessment
Proceedings of the 28th Language Testing Research Colloquium
Av Annie Brown, Kathryn M. Hill
Häftad, 2009
1268 kr
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This volume includes selected papers from the 28th Language Testing Research Colloquium, held at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in July 2006. The papers selected for this volume share a common theme – that of ‘performance’. Not only do they focus on performance assessments of second or …
Complexity of Test Washback
An Empirical Study
Av Dina Tsagari
Häftad, 2009
801 kr
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It has long been noted that high-stakes language exams exert a powerful influence on teaching and learning, a phenomenon known as the washback effect (Alderson and Wall, 1993). However, due to the complex nature of the phenomenon, little research has been conducted in the field so far. This book, …
New Approaches to Assessing Language and (Inter-)Cultural Competences in Higher Education / Nouvelles approches de l’évaluation des compétences langagières et (inter-)culturelles dans l’enseignement supérieur
Av Fred Dervin, Eija Suomela-Salmi
Inbunden, 2010
1279 kr
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Assessment is omnipresent and multifaceted in contemporary institutions of higher education. This collection provides a sound and revealing overview of language and (inter-)cultural assessment practices in European higher education and beyond (Australia, China and Japan). It addresses mainly the …
Diagnostic Writing Assessment
The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale
Av Ute Knoch
Inbunden, 2009
1058 kr
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The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges to practioners both in the classroom and in large-scale testing situations. This book presents a study which set …
Co-construction of Conversation in Group Oral Tests
Inbunden, 2013
859 kr
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International language tests increasingly use group oral formats in both high- and low-stakes contexts. But how do test-takers with different characteristics interact in such formats? This book explores how test-takers with different extraversion and proficiency levels co-construct spoken …
Classroom-Based Language Assessment
Av Dina Tsagari, Ildikó Csépes
Inbunden, 2011
685 kr
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While research into aspects of standardised language tests is growing, the area of classroom-based language assessment (CBLA) is still not well-defined and relatively under-researched. Studies investigating CBLA practices within the ESL/EFL school contexts as well as the tertiary level have …
Accent and Listening Assessment
A Validation Study of the Use of Speakers with L2 Accents on an Academic English Listening Test
Av Luke Harding
Inbunden, 2011
663 kr
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Given the linguistically diverse nature of academic institutions in English-speaking contexts, a strong rationale exists for the incorporation of L2 accents of English in academic listening assessment on the grounds of authenticity and construct representation. However large-scale tests have tended …
International Experiences in Language Testing and Assessment
Selected Papers in Memory of Pavlos Pavlou
Av Dina Tsagari, Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
865 kr
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This publication is dedicated to the memory of Associate Professor Pavlos Pavlou, a distinguished language testing and assessment researcher, ELT practitioner, sociolinguist and esteemed faculty member at the University of Cyprus. The chapters included in the volume, written by distinguished …
Collaboration in Language Testing and Assessment
Av Dina Tsagari, Ildikó Csépes
Inbunden, 2012
641 kr
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The Guidelines for Good Practice of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA) stress the importance of collaboration between all parties involved in the process of developing instruments, activities and programmes for testing and assessment. Collaboration is considered to …
Assessment Issues in Language Translation and Interpreting
Av Dina Tsagari
Inbunden, 2013
633 kr
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The need for reliable and valid assessments of translator and interpreter skills has been widely acknowledged inside and outside these professions and the (language) testing community. Despite this agreement, the actual assessments which serve as gatekeepers for professional translators and …
Language Proficiency Testing for Chinese as a Foreign Language
An Argument-Based Approach for Validating the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK)
Inbunden, 2014
1045 kr
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How did the (old) Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers of Chinese? What inferences can be derived from HSK test taker scores, especially from Western test takers? How difficult is it to learn Chinese according to the HSK? Thirty years of research have …
Testing ESL Sociopragmatics
Development and Validation of a Web-based Test Battery
Av Carsten Roever, Catherine Elder
Inbunden, 2014
642 kr
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Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In this book, the authors describe the development and validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has …
Der C-Test: Aktuelle Tendenzen / The C-Test: Current Trends
Aktuelle Tendenzen / Current Trends
Inbunden, 2014
981 kr
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C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen fehlende Wortteile zu rekonstruieren sind. Sie haben hervorragende psychometrische Eigenschaften und werden in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten zur ökonomischen Messung von (allgemeiner) Sprachkompetenz eingesetzt. Dieser Band illustriert den …
Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement
Analyzing and Evaluating Rater-Mediated Assessments. 2nd Revised and Updated Edition
Av Thomas Eckes
Inbunden, 2015
713 kr
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Since the early days of performance assessment, human ratings have been subject to various forms of error and bias. Expert raters often come up with different ratings for the very same performance and it seems that assessment outcomes largely depend upon which raters happen to assign the rating. …
Computational Text Analysis and Reading Comprehension Exam Complexity
Towards Automatic Text Classification
Inbunden, 2014
945 kr
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This book delineates a range of linguistic features that characterise the reading texts used at the B2 (Independent User) and C1 (Proficient User) levels of the Greek State Certificate of English Language Proficiency exams in order to help define text difficulty per level of competence. In …
Validating Analytic Rating Scales
A Multi-Method Approach to Scaling Descriptors for Assessing Academic Speaking
Av Armin Berger
Inbunden, 2015
1039 kr
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This book presents a unique inter-university scale development project, with a focus on the validation of two new rating scales for the assessment of academic presentations and interactions. The use of rating scales for performance assessment has increased considerably in educational contexts, but …
Validating Language Proficiency Assessments in Second Language Acquisition Research
Applying an Argument-Based Approach
Inbunden, 2015
813 kr
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The book introduces the reader to an argument-based approach to validity as a way to improve test validation in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. Motivated by the need for practical suggestions for raising proficiency assessment standards in SLA research, it exemplifies the approach by …
Developing C-tests for estimating proficiency in foreign language research
Av John Norris
Inbunden, 2018
799 kr
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This book explores the development of C-tests for providing efficient measures of foreign language proficiency in eight different languages: Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Researchers report on how C-test principles were applied in creating the new …
Language Testing in Austria: Taking Stock / Sprachtesten in Oesterreich: Eine Bestandsaufnahme
Inbunden, 2018
1310 kr
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This book marks ten years of language test development and language testing research in Austria. Part I describes the development of large-scale tests at all levels of the educational system. The documentation covers German as the language of instruction for the majority of pupils, the so-called …
Social perspectives on language testing
Papers in honour of Tim McNamara
Av Carsten Roever, Gillian Wigglesworth
Inbunden, 2019
832 kr
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Tim McNamara’s work has had a fundamental impact on language testing. This volume brings together over 20 leading scholars in language assessment whose work has been influenced by Tim McNamara. Their papers cover issues of the social impact of language tests, such as fairness and justice of test …
Virtual Standard Setting: Setting Cut Scores
Av Charalambos Kollias, Claudia Harsch
Inbunden, 2023
739 kr
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Virtual standard setting became more popular since the global outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020. Standard setting practitioners needed to conduct either cut score studies and/or linking studies online. The research presented in this book predates Covid-19 and explores virtual standard setting in two …
